ryan was. the fact is, though, that that committee came up with a mixture of tax increases which we've had and spending cuts which we haven't had and haven't had any cooperation with democrats in the senate to begin doing. what you saw, just before we left for the district work period for various activities like meeting with world economic leaders here in davos is we moved it 90 days so we could attempt one more time to pass a budget, something that would allow us to let public and private leaders around the world have confidence in what our spending is going to be and that in fact we're going to pay our debts. >>gretchen: one other big topic that happened on capitol hill this week was of course that the current secretary of state, outgoing hillary clinton, she finally came to the table to give her testimony on benghazi. but did the whole point of the hearing -- there was a lot of controversy about that video as being the reason why that attack had originally happened instead of calling it a te